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Windows will not start up!

nada

Posted 26 January 2006 - 07:17 PM

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I start my computer and after the black screen where you can press del to go into BIOS, a black screen appears saying "Press a key to Reboot." It happens everytime I reboot and reset my computer. Any ideas? Thank you!

gerryf

Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:32 PM

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wait a minute...that's not the only thing...do you have a windows xp disk so we can get into recovery console...I think Babytech is on to something...you could be getting that if your partition boot sector is hosed (not the master boot sector.

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BabyTech

Posted 27 January 2006 - 09:41 PM

nada

Posted 28 January 2006 - 01:35 AM

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but my computer won't detect any harddrives or cd drives. when i start my computer, next to the primary master it says NONE and next to secondary master, there is a harddrive i don't use. my cd drive won't be detected and i can't change the boot order in my BIOS.

gerryf

Posted 28 January 2006 - 11:11 AM

nada

Posted 28 January 2006 - 05:48 PM

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well it won't detect any physical drives. i think something slipped out too but everything looks fine. can i just try plugging random data cables into this one empty data cable slot on my motherboard? there's two but one's already plugged in so i'm not sure if i just start plugging random things in. Thanks!